Brave Publishers and Creators Privacy Notice

ARCHIVED 2025-02-08, DATE APPROXIMATE · VERSION 20250208_rev01 · COMPARED WITH 20241212_rev01

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5454It's Brave's policy to not collect personal data[2]() unless it's necessary to provide services to our users, or to meet certain legal obligations. We do not buy or sell personal data about consumers.
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5656Where we process personal data about you (subject to laws such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation ([GDPR](https://brave.com/glossary/gdpr/)), or California privacy [laws](https://cppa.ca.gov/regulations/) such as the [CCPA](https://brave.com/glossary/ccpa/) or CPRA), you have the following rights:
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5858- **Right to be informed**: You have the right to know what personal data we process about you and why, together with information about your rights. We explain this via our product privacy policies and/or contextual privacy notices.
5959- **Right of access**: Where we process personal data about you, you have the right to request a copy of it.
60- **Right to delete**: When certain grounds apply, you can ask us to delete personal data we are processing about you. Please note, we have a separate global policy for Brave Search results and the [right to be forgotten](https://search.brave.com/).
60- **Right to delete**: When certain grounds apply, you can ask us to delete personal data we are processing about you. Please note, we have a separate global policy for Brave Search results and the [right to be forgotten](https://search.brave.com/help/brave-search-index-right-to-be-forgotten).
6161- **Right to rectification**: You can ask us to correct inaccurate personal data and/or to update incomplete data.
6262- **Right to restriction**: In certain circumstances, you can request that we refrain from processing your personal data.
6363- **Right to object**: In certain circumstances, you can object to the processing of your personal data (for example to object to the use of your data for profiling and/or purely automated decision making). Please note that we do not buy or sell personal data about consumers.
6464- **Right to data portability**: In certain circumstances you have the right to request and receive personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine readable format that makes it possible to reuse the data. Please note, anonymous data is not subject to this right.
6565- **Right to lodge a complaint with a regulatory authority**: Brave is based in the USA. The authority to lodge a complaint about Brave will depend on where you live. If you're in the EU you can contact our nominated representative under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), or you can complain to the [Irish Data Protection Commissioner](https://www.dataprotection.ie/). If you're in the UK you can complain to the [Information Commissioner's Office](https://ico.org.uk/). If you're in California you can complain to the [California Privacy Protection Agency](https://cppa.ca.gov/).
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